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Article #3104Fat Binaries Diet?
From: Sherwood Botsford
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 16:29
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 16:29
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Charles Robinson writes > Fat binaries (like those planned for NextStep 486) should solve your concern. > Basically the (incompatable) binaries are packaged together and NextStep > figures out which one to load. Developers will, as I understand the current > situation, be forced to compile on each native system (no cross compilers > will be available for the 486). > In many ways the ideal would be to sell the packages as Fat Binaries, but then have a standard diet command that could strip out the binaries that you didn't want. Thus if you bought a 6 unit FrameMaker license, and had it on a network with both 486's and Classic Slabs, but no Next Risc Workstations you would run diet -d 88110 app-folder, and diet would strip out the 88110 stuff. and it would go through that folder looking
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!alberta!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!news From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) Subject: Fat Binaries Diet? Message-ID: <1992Oct16.162921.9352@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: fenris.space.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1992Oct11.064357.4792@serveme.chi.il.us> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 16:29:21 GMT Lines: 22